by Martin Witte, BAIDO Program Coordinator Working with Chinese environmentalistsNGOs in the Bay Area International Development Organizations (BAIDO)network are working with grassroots organization...

There’s no longer even the pretense of even-handedness in the White House

Peter D.Ward is one of maybe a dozen leading scholars of the Permianextinction. Despite being an able popularizer, always anathema toscientists who cannot write, he is a sober-sided and carefulresearc...

Forfive years, one small-town housewife-turned-mayor and four farmers –each suffering health problems caused by industrial wastes – workeddiligently and cooperatively to unravel one of the fertilize...

The indigenous Machiguenga of Peru’'s Amazon Basin face off against the fossil fuel industry

Biodiesel Your story, “Make Fries, Not War!”may have left readers with the impression that biodiesel is illegal inCalifornia, which simply isn’t the case. Biodiesel is legal as both afuel and fuel...

Afterseveral months of living and working in various campo sites (ruralcommunities) in Nicaragua, UÁP students reunited in a conference inlate August. They shared experiences of relationships m...

Our oceans are in deep trouble and we must immediately take a fresh approach to ensure their survival.

AFRICAToyotarization in North Africa Atthe International Geographical Congress 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland onAugust 19, desert expert Andrew Goudie presented new research thatshows an alarming increase...

OlinCohan loves his job. “I love that my occupation doesn’t feel like anoccupation,” he says. “I love the time that I get to spend in some ofthe most beautiful and remote areas...

WhenI was a girl, I loved all things wild. I loved roaming the forestbehind our house and the meadows that surrounded our farm. And when I was a girl, my mother taught me to love wolves. In the late‘...

At the recent XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Global Service Corps (GSC) Executive Director Rick Lathrop presented the Seeds of SurvivalPartnership Program. Through this program, GSC supp...

Hydro Novabrings innovative methods for dealing with wastewater to areas thatlack sewer systems. In California about 1.2 million households use onsite systems, which may pollute groundwater if not pro...

EIImember Polly Strand was one of the earliest and most passionateactivists for animal rights and human health. More than a decade agoshe testified before the California legislature about the Universi...

If there is a bright spot in four years of darkness under the Bush administration’s destructive environmental policies, it is the young activists who have stepped forward to challenge them. T...

2004 International Whaling CommissionThis year’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Sorrento, Italy, brought the long-simmering issue of vote-buying to a boil. Japanin particular ha...

Palestinian farmers contend with war, enforced drought, and the Separation Wall

Oceanconservation has become a hot topic. With the release of two majorreports on the status of ocean health from the Pew Commission and theUS Commission on Ocean Policy, there is growing consensus th...

The toxic legacy of lewisite

Squatters Guddy and Kai Birkigt fight to deflect a trend of human and natural resource exploitation.